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There is little accounting for the Chamber of Deputies. The same Chamber that cut Prime Minister Tardieu's majority to seven, that gave Prime Minister Steeg a majority of ten and then booted him out, suddenly softened last week toward the new Cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Laval, a man no bigger than either of his predecessors. To Prime Minister Laval the Chamber gave a handsome working majority of 54 on his first test vote, a vote that seemed to promise continuation of the Laval cabinet perhaps until after the presidential elections...
...that last week French farmers rejoiced in a price of $1.72 per bu. of wheat, while at Chicago the price hovered around 80? in Canada 57? But so peculiar are French politics that last week the highly satisfactory price of wheat in France caused the fall of M. Theodore Steeg's "Cabinet of Concentration, Entente and Conciliation...
...this miasma of scandal the Steeg cabinet withered, declined and died by the close vote...
That amiable greybeard Prime Minister Theodore Steeg lost three members from his already enfeebled ministry last week,* but guaranteed the life of his government for at least three weeks by adjourning Parliament until the second Tuesday in January, the fateful 13th. The political spot-light shifted from the Chamber of Deputies to its parliamentary commission investigating the famous Oustric Scandal. Observers realized that until former Prime Minister Andre Tardieu was completely whitewashed of any complicity in the swindles of Banker Albert Oustric it would be impossible for him to succeed to the prime ministry on the fall of the Steeg...
...Minister of Pensions, Under Secretary of Agriculture and Under Secretary of the Interior, all members of the Right, resigned when they heard that Steeg had received Socialist support for his tottering Cabinet by agreeing to a disarmament program...